Naweed Zaman

Military career

Zaman was formally commissioned into the Pakistan Armed Forces in 1980, after graduating from the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) with a Sword of Honour, at which he later also served an instructor at the School of Infantry and Tactics.

He also attended the National Defence University, Pakistan (NDU), Joint Services Command and Staff College, UK (JSCSC) and Royal College of Defence Studies, UK (RCDS).

He served as General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 7th Infantry Division, Corps Commander of the IV Corps and as Military Secretary at Army General Headquarters (GHQ).

During his service as the GOC of the 7th Infantry Division, he partook in Operation Rah-e-Nijat (Path to Salvation) which cleared out the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other associated militant groups from Pakistan's South Waziristan Agency, and brought it back under the control of the Government of Pakistan.

Zaman is a recipient of the Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Star of Crescent) by the Government of Pakistan.

In September 2014, Zaman was reportedly shortlisted as a candidate by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to succeed Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General Zaheer-ul-Islam, who was about to retire. Ultimately Major General Rizwan Akhtar was selected for the job.

Zaman was rumored to have been one of eleven Army officers to have been dismissed in April 2016 on the orders of Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif for supposed corruption-related charges relating to the Panama Papers revelations, but this was dismissed by Lieutenant General Asim Bajwa, the head of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) branch of the Armed Forces, along with the accusation against General Sajjid Ghani. Instead Zaman formally retired from military service.

Academic career

He was appointed Rector of the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) in November 2016.

Personal life

Zaman graduated from Cadet College Hasan Abdal (CCH) prior to his military service, is married and has three children.